‘Under what law’ – Falana faults house gifts to Nigerian judges

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has blasted the Federal Government implicit its gifts of houses to judges.

Speaking astatine the Housing TV Africa on Thursday, Falana demanded the proviso of the instrumentality that stipulated specified a gesture.

He charged the Federal Government to besides physique houses for assemblage professors and different civilian and nationalist servants, noting that what is bully for the goose is arsenic bully for the gander.

“”We person got to a signifier successful the state wherever we person to situation the peculiar privileges fixed to the affluent and apical nationalist officers successful the country.

“I was precise bittersweet erstwhile I saw that the Federal Government was handing implicit the keys of houses to judges, and I asked myself, ‘Under what instrumentality are we operating?’ Because it’s discriminatory and illegal.

“You dainty everyone arsenic successful our country. So you can’t instrumentality retired judges. Judges are entitled to accommodation by the way. They indispensable unrecorded comfortably and we’ll secured.

“But, different citizens indispensable beryllium arsenic provided for. If you don’t bash it, you tin beryllium challenged, and that is going to hap precise soon due to the fact that what is bully the goose is bully for the gander,” helium said.

‘Under what law’ – Falana faults location gifts to Nigerian judges